My first experience with yoga took place at my grandmother's house when I was five years old. Sitting across from her at the dining table, half-awake as the Kolkata sun began to warm the day, I ...

On a balmy Saturday afternoon in the Arts District, a crowded room of yogis lunges forward in unison, each person pressing one hand against the floor while reaching the other toward the ceiling.

Not long ago, a longtime New Yorker summed up the appeal of India’s yoga- and Ayurveda-focused Shreyas Retreat better than I ever could. She had found the retreat six years earlier, when she asked her ...

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